Locality
53°30´ east longitude, 63°25´ north latitiude [ map ]
Name
Yarega, Komi, Russia, Europa
Personal relationship of donor
Reference collection - Russia
Historical relevance of location
Enrichments of heavy minerals in sands are often of economic importance.
Geological relevance of location
Heavy minerals can be enriched in the sands along a coast. Such deposits are called \\\\\\\"placers\\\\\\\", local enrichments of heavy, resistant minerals (especially gold) that in some cases can be mined.
Classification of the earth
Structure
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sand
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Colour
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reddish brown
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Age
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Middle Devonian, 380 million years
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other
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sandstone containing heavy minerals
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Donor
Geoscientific Collections Section of the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources,
Geological Survey of Lower Saxony,
Hannover,
Germany